CVE-2026-43165 (GCVE-0-2026-43165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:19
VLAI
Title
hwmon: (nct7363) Fix a resource leak in nct7363_present_pwm_fanin
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (nct7363) Fix a resource leak in nct7363_present_pwm_fanin When calling of_parse_phandle_with_args(), the caller is responsible to call of_node_put() to release the reference of device node. In nct7363_present_pwm_fanin, it does not release the reference, causing a resource leak.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < c8cde3ddd12ad7d0e6b5a3e0ea3914a9a778adf4 (git)
Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < fb99b58763a95e20b214fc1dd86837ae00a400b7 (git)
Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < 4923bbff0bcffe488b3aa76829c829bd15b02585 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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